Quote Originally Posted by CFH View Post
Kirkland:

1) I have no desire to play cut and paste patticake with you so save that bullshit for Lyle.

2) Nothing you posted changes my fundamental points that a) Bush and Blair (and their subordinates in Iraq and Afghanistan) did nothing that literally almost every other military ruler (politician or otherwise) hasn't done in the past and will do in the future in times of war; and b) that the United States would NEVER allow any foreign or international court to imposed any punishment on George W. Bush (or any other President).

3) War is inherently immoral and it (unfortunately) is a mainstay of human society. Trying to impose some arbitrary rules which classify some people as "war criminals", except perhaps in extreme cases, is a futile exercise in semantics and political posturing.

Those are my points. As I have mentioned, I loathe Bush but to try and paint him with the same brush as a Hitler or Stalin is absurd.

As for the other points that came up during our little chat, I have no desire to engage in a redundant argument with you over them.

2.Every other pollitician and military ruler has started a preemptive aggressive war?

3. Not semantics or posturing at all. And definitely not arbitrary rules. The Geneva Conventions are not arbitraryrules, are they? The whole business of going to war is codified into law, so the whole issue depends on law, not semantics or posturing.

Nobody is saying Bush is as bad as Hitler, but you can be less bad than Hitler and still be a war criminal.